picciuni

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin pīpiō, pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”).

Noun

picciuni m (plural picciuna or picciuni)

  1. pigeon
    Synonym: palummu
    A la morti si spinna lu picciuni.
    Someone's will goes into effect once they die.
    (literally, “The feathers of the pigeon are plucked when it died.”)
  2. chick (young bird)
    Synonym: puddicinu
  3. grown-up bird who still hasn't left its nest, or has just left it

Derived terms
  • picciunara
  • picciunastru
  • picciunazzu
  • picciuneddu
  • picciunàrisi

Descendants
  • → Maltese: beċċun

References
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1151: “il piccione; i piccioni” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “picciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3045
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “picciuni”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 91
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “picciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 647
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